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Schumer Democrats Choose Illegal Aliens Over Citizens in Government Shutdown

Schumer Democrats Choose Illegal Aliens Over Citizens in Government Shutdown

The federal government shut down at the stroke of midnight after a last-ditch vote on a House-passed short-term federal spending plan fell well short in the Senate.

Minutes before the 12 a.m. deadline, the White House released a statement labeling the impasse the “Schumer Shutdown” and laying the blame on Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who failed to reach a last-minute agreement during a meeting with President Trump yesterday afternoon.

“Senate Democrats own the Schumer Shutdown. Tonight, they put politics above our national security, military families, vulnerable children and our country’s ability to serve all Americans,” the statement read. “We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage of their reckless demands. This is the behavior of obstructionist losers, not legislators.”

Although enough senators voted against a stopgap measure to ensure the closure of all but essential operations nationwide, the Republican-led Senate held the vote open past midnight, seemingly to accommodate numerous discussions among leaders and other lawmakers away from the chamber’s floor.

The measure failed to gain the 60 votes needed to break a Democratic filibuster, with a handful of red-state Democrats crossing the aisle to support the measure and some Republicans voting in opposition.

Democrats insisted that the spending bill include protections for some 700,000 younger immigrants facing deportation. Republicans, who control both Congress and the White House, are now faced with the prospect of being blamed for the fourth shutdown in a quarter-century.

It also threatens to slow any GOP momentum, one month after passage of the party’s signature tax cut law.

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The failed vote came hours after Trump summoned Schumer to the White House in the hopes of cutting a deal. But they later emerged from the White House meeting without an agreement.

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney later told CNN that “not much has changed” over the course of the day and predicted a deal would be reached by Monday.

In the hours leading up to the vote, Senate Democrats warned they would filibuster a four-week extension, the government-wide funding bill that cleared the House Thursday evening. They’re seeking an even shorter extension that they think will keep the pressure on the White House to cut a deal to protect “dreamer” immigrants — who were brought to the country as children and are now here illegally — before their legal protection runs out in March.

The shutdown is the first since 2013, when Tea Party Republicans — in a strategy not unlike the one Schumer is employing now — sought to use a must-pass funding bill to try to force then-President Barack Obama to delay implementation of his marquee health care law.

Even with the government shut down, food inspections, federal law enforcement, airport security checks and other vital services will continue, as will Social Security payments, other federal benefit programs and military operations.

Herald wire services contributed to this report.

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The Democrat party is a sh!show. Putting ILLEGAL immigrants ahead of the American people shows they are incapable of rational action. Of course the House and Senate will continue to be paid, but not the military enlisted. Disgusting!

Let’s correct the facts. The Republicans control the Whitehouse and the House of Representatives but are only a majority in the Senate without control on matters that require 60 Senators to pass. Schumer has shown his colors as an obstructionist leader of Democrat TEAM CONSUMPTION, TEAM ILLEGALITY, TEAM DREAM WALKERS to oppose Republican TEAM CREATION of Jobs, wealth morality, Republican TEAM LAWABIDING, Reality Republican DREAM accomplishers. To side with illegality and illegal invaders over established citizens is an act of American TRAITORISM to the best interests of the American people and our entire nation as a whole. “Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you what you are”. Schumer’s actions define himself as a foreigner every bit like Obama, and no friend of the American people that elected him to serve, not OBSTRUCT. People nurture protect and keep safe the people that they love. Shutdown Schumer and his party have become the foreign cancerous infection that loves and protects foreign ideas and foreign people, that have divided, disabled, and debilitated the vital organs of American government to the point where they no longer function as our AMERICAN Founders designed, placing foreign interests, and invading social debilitating foreign bodies over the very health and viability of our once united, healthy and viable nation.

But unfortunately, the members of our military do NOT get paid. Now, I’m all for keeping the government shut down as long as the psychotic communist liberals want to hold America hostage for the sake of people who shouldn’t be here. It will only make them look bad.

But, Trump should issue an executive order stating that military pay will immediately be restored.

If the liberals want to scream about that, then let them. It will be to their own detriment.

Why should these useless continue to receive a paycheck….none of them are ESSENTIAL. I believe their salaries should be shifted to the military (current and veterans). Not one military personnel, their family, the vets or the families of military receiving widow/survivor benefits should have to worry about their income being held up. Until these whiney crybabies get their act together not one penny should they receive. I believe that one demo-rat stated he was donating his paycheck to charity….BIG DEAL. How about donating it the armed forces, not some fake supposed charity. There are seats reserved in Hell for all of these demorat and traitor republican’s.

Being that when i was in, there were a # of stories both in the Mil times, wash times and several OTHER respectable news papers, that often there are 45-65% of the military’s LOWER ranks (up to E5) that live paycheck to paycheck, even a ONE MONTH cut off will hurt them..

Did some quick math. If the average pay for them is $15 an hour (considering government salaries this is a possibility) that’s $5,250,000 an hour. That would go a long way toward reducing the deficit. Maybe we should make it permanent? Just thinking.

IMO this is why i say ARREST THE LOT OF THEM.. THEY Are in essence aiding the ENEMY OVER citizens by doing this.. Add to that last i checked, EXTORTION (which is what this is) WAS STILL a federal felony.

This is the very reason an amendment to the 17th amendment is needed. As of now, once a senator is elected there is no mechanism in place to hold them accountable to the states people they represent. So, these senators can grandstand without any fear of being held accountable for their actions between election cycles and this must end,,,,,and soon!

Not just that, but we need a convention of states to INSTALL TERM LIMITS, and change the rules on who the hell gets paid and who does NOT, when the govt shuts down (NOT ONE PERSON IN CONGRESS SHOULD imo), additionally REMOVE THE WHOLE total and utter crapolium that they get AUTOMATIC pay raises, unless they vote to NOT do so (as unlikely as a shark and a dolphin mating for life)..

Really does not matter who or why shuts down the government, it is good for the American people

Keep it down we don’t need the parts which are shut down, anyway

Of course, the little Demobabies cried their eyes out when Cruz shut it down and they whined about it costing $25 billion but everyone seems to forget or at least won’t mention it, but that year the government collected record revenue

That is just how stifling is government

Sure tax cuts are great but pulling the government out of the market allows people to not only keep their own money but to make it too

So the military special operations forces – predominately low paid enlisted personnel – should put their lives on the line fighting terrorism without being paid? How are their families to buy groceries?

Legally what happens if an operator is killed in Syria during the shutdown.

I agree that outside the military the “shutdown” is a big sham. Realistically I bet the military members will be paid, but many live pay check to pay check and cannot afford to miss even one. Look at the paycharts available on line to see how little a E1 to E4 military member is paid. It’s far less that the welfare equivalent. They volunteered knowing the low wages, but they also volunteered expecting to be paid every two weeks.

Let’s not forget the traitor Republicans who also voted against the plan….Lynnie Graham, “Randy” Paul, “Judas” Flake and 2 more who I can’t remember. Maybe there was a legitimate reason “Randy” Paul’s neighbor beat the crap out of him….I know I would like to get these traitors in a room and bring them to their senses. Their constituents won’t forget them for their selfishness come election time. Wise up people, they don’t give a crap about you, their main purpose is to derail OUR PRESIDENT’S plans to make our country and it’s citizens great.

Maybe. But let’s not kid ourselves here. No matter who shuts down the government (and it’s almost always the Dems) the Media will make it look like those Evil Republicans are at it again. They’re shutting down the government just so they can light another cigar off a burning 100 dollar bill. That will be the Narrative. It’s always the Narrative.

This one is a completely partisan, Democrat-driven government shutdown. A thing that should have never been is being added to the negotiations as a poison pill. Trump will not swallow the poison pill. And so he refuses to sign the CR until they yank out all that DACA nonsense.

What Trump ought to do right now is go on vacation down at Mar a Lago. Just get on TV and say there’s nothing he can do until Congress does its job so he’s taking a much-needed vacation.

And oh BTW call me if you guys pull your heads out. Until then – Do not disturb.

Now, all the focus is on Congress. There is no news coming from Mar a Lago. No press briefings. No tweets. No nothing.

Let Newt Gingrich get on Fox news and explain that there’s no legal way for Trump to intervene at this point. Congress has to create the budget before he can sign it. Period.

And no, Trump won’t sign if it includes the illegal DACA provisions. Obama never had the authority to create them. Prez Trump wants a CLEAN bill. Just government funding, no antics, no sideshow, no DACA drama. All we’re trying to do is fund the government. Why is that so hard?

Wishful thinking on the part of the Herald to think this will be blamed on the Republicans. Although they, the NY Times and the rest of the MSM will try their utmost to do so. Will they ever realize their over-the-top attempts to blame every thing on Trump or the Republicans is what is eroding the public’s trust (or should that be accelerating the public’s distrust) of the leftist media?

Hello yankeegal: Democrats have mastered the art of defecating and then blaming Republicans for the stink.
With reference to the NYT … no they do not care about “image”. The liberal socialist media and press are agenda driven zealots selling propaganda to an ever increasing socialist electorate. Best regards yankeegal

“Government shut down”????
Is that not an oxymoron considering the “essential elements of government” rremain intact (open and active). Given that fact, is not everything other than the “essential elements of government” more governance than we need? : )

Schumer is following the LBJ template for building a voter base or adding to it. In the 60’s LBJ used give away programs at the working peoples expense to entice African-Americans to vote Demotard. He said himself that two or three generations of welfare, food stamps and not having to work for it and the Dems would own the African-American vote. Because they told them to vote Dems in or the Republicans would take all of their free stuff. Schumer and the majority of the Dems are doing the same with the illegals. They get to go to the head of the immigration line, get a lot of free stuff and don’t have to worry about deportation as long as they support the Uncle Chuckie and his Merry Band of Socialists.